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Bird bits: Pacific wren - a loud-mouthed, stubby, brown bird In actuality, the Pacific wren is a tiny, deliciously vocal lollipop, a 0.3-ounce glob of exquisitely subtle feathers, measuring three to four inches in length with five- to six-inch wingspan. Its nub of a tail is often cocked upright.
June 28, 2013 - Juneau Empire

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Bill Keller in International Herald Tribune When you watched her work - relentless on the phone, gnawing her fingernails to the nub, a perfectionist on the keyboard - you'd think: a workhorse, not a showhorse,said Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times. "Then you'd read...

Noel Sharkey in Telegraph.co.uk This president is further and further removed from the economic realities of this nation. To veto this bill at a time when housing is at the nub of our economic crisis, at a time when housing prices are declining, at a time when foreclosures are... Charles Schumer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7tUu9R7CCKc2QBQlM4eaS3VK9og International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/21/america/Housing-Crunch-Time.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGg1DvRPl1ZNOR1aPbv9euvTsQwcw Jun 21, 2008
68559 91473 nub I do think there should be some international discussion and arms control on these weapons but there's absolutely none," said Prof Sharkey. "The military have a strange view of artificial intelligence based on science fiction. The nub of it...